A machine-learning method for identifying multi-wavelength counterparts of submillimeter galaxies: training and testing using AS2UDS and ALESS

Abstract

We describe the application of the supervised machine-learning algorithms to identify the likely multi-wavelength counterparts to submillimeter sources detected in panoramic, single-dish submillimeter surveys. As a training set, we employ a sample of 695 ($S_{870\mu \mathrm{m}}$ >1 mJy) submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) with precise identifications from the ALMA follow-up of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey's UKIDSS-UDS field (AS2UDS). We show that radio emission, near-/mid-infrared colors, photometric redshift, and absolute $H$-band magnitude are effective predictors that can distinguish SMGs from submillimeter-faint field galaxies. Our combined radio+machine-learning method is able to successfully recover $\sim$85 percent of ALMA-identified SMGs which are detected in at least three bands from the ultraviolet to radio. We confirm the robustness of our method by dividing our training set into independent subsets and using these for training and testing respectively, as well as applying our method to an independent sample of $\sim$100 ALMA-identified SMGs from the ALMA/LABOCA ECDF-South Survey (ALESS). To further test our methodology, we stack the 870$\mu$m ALMA maps at the positions of those $K$-band galaxies that are classified as SMG counterparts by the machine-learning but do not have a $>$4.3$\sigma$ ALMA detection. The median peak flux density of these galaxies is $S_{870\mu \mathrm{m}}=(0.61\pm 0.03)$ mJy, demonstrating that our method can recover faint and/or diffuse SMGs even when they are below the detection threshold of our ALMA observations. In future, we will apply this method to samples drawn from panoramic single-dish submillimeter surveys which currently lack interferometric follow-up observations, to address science questions which can only be tackled with large, statistical samples of SMGs.

arXiv comment25 pages, 10 figures, three tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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